fundus

Meanings

1. The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially:
2. The top, hollow portion of the uterus.
3. The back, interior part of the eye, accommodating the retina and associated blood vessels, etc.
4. The uppermost hollow of the stomach, which in humans forms a bulge above where the oesophagus enters the stomach.
5. The deepest part of a sulcus, such as of the sulci of the human cerebral cortex.

Etymology

PIE word *bʰudʰmḗn From Latin fundus (“bottom”). Doublet of fond and fund.